Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

"Yeah, no way. Absolutely impossible!"

The two receptionists still refused to believe the gossip article.

Even the report itself wasn't definitive—it was just speculation and overanalysis

from the media, not based on confirmed facts.

Not only did the receptionists see the article, but everyone else did, too.

Still, it was mostly people from Yantail and the Lafond Group who clicked on it. Regular folks who weren't interested in entertainment gossip either skimmed past it or deleted the notification.

stir up a storm in both companies. Anyone who knew River and Romina personally started calling them after seeing it. River had just returned to his office and hadn't even sat down

her call while pulling out his chair and taking

too excited to treat me to lunch?

"River, did you not see the gossip article?" Feigning confusion, River replied, “What article? I usually turn off push notifications. If I want to read news, I'll look for it myself. I don't

the toy store. Didn't your temp bodyguard tell you someone was taking photos? You said you handled it and made them delete the pictures. So how are photos

too. It was her best friend who saw the article and called her, asking when she got married-and why she hadn't said

friend was convinced she'd been secretly married for years and even had two kids, the

keeping such a

believe her. The photos were there, after all. And they looked too convincing- River and Romina walking together, smiling, laughing, with River looking at her with such gentle, affectionate eyes. Even Romina was a

for the article herself.